Give yourself horse legs

Seattle artist Kim Graham made herself a pair of horsey legs, and now she's making more to sell. They'll cost you about $1000 with the optional spring loaded hooves.

Digigrade leg extensions (Via TYWKIWDBI)

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Dewi Morgan

#66: Unicorn on bottom? Where does the horn go?
BadStoryDan

This + BigDog = epic halloween costume.
Anonymous

Do these legs make me look fat?
EH

Do they come in cordovan?
misshouseunited

@28:

OR Dranei!
Anonymous

You’re using coconuts. You’ve got two empty halves of coconut and you’re banging them together.
Anonymous

Saw this about two years ago…Or something similar.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/redheadphotography/2395480584/in/set-72157604424205645/
dross1260

Where the Lapithaen women at?
Phikus

More Halloween possibilities:

Darkness (Tim Curry in Legend)

Killface
Xopher

Excuse me, but Pan is a god. Fauns and satyrs resemble him, not the other way around.

Io! Pan! Io! Pan!
Marshall

I’ve seen folks wearing gadgets like this before, and the downside is always that they end up being too tall to do stuff. Kim’s seem to be just about the right height to be practical, which is why they’re so damn cool.
Anonymous

The horse leg bit was kinda creepy.
cans

Done before! http://www.naodesign.net/digi.htm

And I think these folks were ‘boinged, as well…
jfrancis

@66: It would go on the top, except that’s where the human part is
jfrancis

(I meant @72)

…at least that’s what he keeps insisting. For the movie, we’re thinking Ben Stiller.

:D
GeekMan

On the one hand: the thought of running across an open field at break-neck speed in the spring-loaded version of these legs is a wonderful thought.

On the other hand, the idea of how excited the furry crowd is getting over these legs completely ruins that thought.
Anonymous

How long until these start showing up at Fur Cons?
Anonymous

What, no running?
Bret

Everybody google Pony Play.
Phikus

Why not? I frequently give myself a hoarse voice… *whinny cough cough*
Anonymous

Put em on backwards and you can be Torgo.
Anonymous

If you were a contestant on Mantracker, this would throw him TOTALLY off your trail… LMAO!! Kinda cool…
the_boy

I give it two years before “centauring” becomes a thing.
Torley

You gotta see the Second Life version.
Phikus

It would behoove you to get yourself a pair…
Anonymous

The fetish crowd just went bananas.
nzruss

I don’t want horse hoves….

I want bear arms. I have rights!!!!
Anonymous

Them will say; Not intended for actual use.

Unless she wants to be litigated.
Steiny

First thing that sprang to mind for me was “The Arrival”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Arrival_(film)
Anonymous

“Calling all centaur fetishists!”

“Calling ALL CENTAUR FETISHISTS!”

oh wait.. they’re already on it I’m sure.
Anonymous

This video is almost its own unicorn chaser
jfrancis

My daughter invented a centaur that is human on top and unicorn on bottom.

:D
Felix Mitchell

that skirt does nothing for her thighs
jfrancis

When I was a kid I used to think the knees went backwards, but they actually just have normal knees and ankles and very long feet.
natch

Cool! But I want to see the crowd reaction shots… please? Take a stroll around Pike’s Market?
Random_Tangent

How are these good for Centuar fetishists? HELLO! These are obviously most useful for Minotaurphilliacs.
Antinous / Moderator

Did someone say Centaur fetish? Mildly NSFW.
erindipity

heh heh heh!
Duffong

This might sound kinda mean, but I want a horse to calmly walk up to her – shake its head in dismay – turn around – and then kick her into that lake.
Anonymous

$1000???? I made a similar set from junk salvaged from the dumpster at my apartment:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cibomahto/3377592619/

I was following the wonderful directions from these folk:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JeJ1LimPAk
nutbastard

oh man it’d be a blast to show up to an LSD party with these things on!
Egypt Urnash

Damn, I want some of these with big articulated claws instead of hooves.
Anonymous

I have always wanted cloven hooves.

Horses don’t have the split hooves though, so this is really more like cow legs or Pan legs.
TJ S

Are these for me? I say “neigh”.
Anonymous

Am I the only one who finds these really disturbingly wrong?
aoi

@ #34 Anonymous
I saw them at sakuracon too.
They seemed to be fairly agile moving around in them, but man did they tower above everyone else. I wouldn’t mind taking some for a test drive myself, I’m wondering if they work more like stilts or just a balanced extension of the leg.
Anonymous

Oh, God.
Xavier, Renegade Angel in real life!
We are dead.
Hanglyman

They’re more satyr than centaur.

Antinous, I’ll be forever left wondering what a horny centaur version of Mr. T has to do with folk music now.
Anonymous

The Centaur Fetish thing is ascendant.
Dan Savage has been going on about it on his podcast for the last few installments.

Sex Columnists: ONE
Cultural zeitgeist: ZERO

On a barely related note; this kind of weirdness in my world makes me glad to be alive right now.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  After looking through many Google images for ‘centaur’, I have to report that of all the horrible ways to create an image of a centaur, creating it and then photoshopping your own head onto it is the worst.
Hanglyman

Oh man, and he’s actually not part horse, but part bull, so that makes him a minotaur? Except not, because minotaurs only have two legs?
Anonymous

Yeah, I’m thinking that would work well with that dinosaur show for the veloceraptors. Pretty cool and nice work. (Not sure I’d want to wear the furry legs.)
nutbastard

“things like this really get my goat.”

“why does she have to be the centaur of attention?”

“i wonder if this idea will Pan out”

-nutty b
Anonymous

These are great for anyone who wants to dress up like the Tauren from World of Warcraft – the horse like species in the game. Are there conventions for those people too?
Sekino

These aren’t ‘digigrade’ though. Horses are unguligrades.

Am I the only one who finds these really disturbingly wrong?

I gather you don’t celebrate Halloween much: These would be SO awesome for a devil costume! Or a post-apocalyptic satyr…
lakelady

these would be sooo awesome for a production of Equus!
Brainspore

I’m sure the fetishists are working on a sexual position where two people in those getups would resemble one centaur. And no, I don’t need to see the link.
nutbastard

for the record:

centaur – human torso/head/arms, horse body/legs

minotaur – human legs, bull/ram head/upper body

anyone know if there’s a ‘taur’ for what Pan is? (goat legs, man upper body)
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  Pan is a faun.
Anonymous

I absolutely saw a couple with these things at SakuraCon. I don’t think they opted for the hooves, though.
http://i41.tinypic.com/axk3sl.jpg

We spent most of our time wondering how they poop with those on. Do they remove them? Do they just pray they don’t fall?
nutbastard

@Anitous

ok… in that case:

“these look like a lot of faun”
Brainspore

Anybody know the difference between a faun and a satyr? Does it just depend on how much they’ve been drinking?
Tdawwg

Satyrs are Greek; Fauns, Roman. Otherwise, there’s a lot of overlapping. They both drink a lot, a lot of the time.
Tonamel

Fauns are Roman, satyrs are Greek. They’re both half-goat folk, though.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  Satyrs are also highly sexualized. Fauns not so much.
philoponia

Can we please get some “legs” for our arms?
nutbastard

so when assessing the amount of agility imparted on the wearer, would one say this has good panhandling?
Anonymous

reminds me of portal’s spring loaded fall breaking thingies.
Anonymous

Felix Mitchell said chauvinistically:

“that skirt does nothing for her thighs”

So, an artist creates something unique for the universe, and instead of critiquing, appreciating, or commenting on it, you resort to sexism. It makes me feel awesome, that as a woman engineer, everything I ever create will be judged by men like YOU based on my appearance.
Tdawwg

Anyone interested in a good Centaur story should turn to the locus classicus, Ovid’s story of the battle between the Lapiths and Centaurs, in book 12 of the Metamorphoses. Lotsa drinkin’, lotsa killin’, lotsa (readerly) laughin’.
Brainspore

@ Aninous #40:

Ah, that explains why the Narnia books were suspiciously devoid of orgies.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  Ah, that explains why the Narnia books were suspiciously devoid of orgies.
  
  Did you miss Voyage of the Dong Treader and The Horse and His……oh never mind.
Anonymous

Wow. You could totally make a Doom Cyberdemon outfit with those.
Anonymous

Me need dinosaur version.
jimh

I know a lot of people will be fauning over these and making their own. But I hope she doesn’t try to copyright this idea- because you know… satyr is fair use.
nutbastard

@#40 Antinous

“Satyrs are also highly sexualized. Fauns not so much.”

With Pan being the glaring exception??
Teller

Palominolo Blahnik.
quiksilvrm

@28

I take it you haven’t heard of BlizzCon’s Costume Contests
High On Markers

So, what, you BB readers are not also Cracked readers? That must be why you’re so woefully ignorant of Boytaur (back onto the centaur love theme, here)
http://www.cracked.com/article_15250_p2.html
Anonymous

Hey Hurk!
Dewi Morgan

JFrancis: My mind is simply too dirty to envisage a suitable location for the horn. So, I’ll be first in line for the movie!
fnc

And you won’t need someone to follow you around clacking coconuts together either.
Brett Burton

This is who you market these to:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mapper-montag/173044858/